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1 Calciner. Here the tin concentrate was roasted to remove heavy minerals.

2 Buddle house. Now used as the Reception Shop area.

 3 Boiler House. Built 1904 and contained a Cornish Boiler Currently used as a store.

4 Beam Winding Engine House. Erected in 1868. Designed to hoist from Engine Shaft, but replaced in 1907 with a steam winder which was put back on its original base in 2004. see 7.

5 View Point. This view, along the Great Flat Load is one of the last great mining landscapes in Britain. It is possible to see 12 engine houses from this point.

6 Engine Shaft. Started in 1864 and go to a depth of 400ft. Abandoned in 1921 when the mine flooded. Ore hoisted here was taken to the mill along an overhead tramway.

7 Steam Winder Made by Holmans of Camborne in 1907 for K.E.M. but was removed in 1942 and used at Castle-an-Dinas mine but returned here in 2001

8 Mill Engine Room.      Now the Museum. Erected in 1901 and originally contained a horizontal steam engine which drove the machinery in the mill.

9 Stamps, Erected in 1901to house the Californian stamps which had been displayed at the Paris Exposition of 1902. The stamps are the only full size set in Europe and are run on special occasions.

10 Mill Erected in 1902/04 to house a commercially operating tin concentration plant.                                                 

11 Toilets.

12 South Condurrow Stamps Engine House, Erected in 1896 and operated a battery of Cornish stamps, worked up to 1914.

                A Survey Office..................B Assay Office............C Count House.............

D Workshop and Vanning room (1904/5)  E Blacksmiths' shop about 1870.............

F Miners Dry about 1870...

       

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